Word: motorcyclist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 2,000 happy motorcyclists roared through the streets of Buenos Aires one day last week to honor "Argentina's No. 1 Motorcyclist," the parade was led by none other than the No. 1 motorcyclist himself. At the Casa Rosada (Pink House, Argentina's White House), President Juan Perón, decked out in a broad smile and a jockey cap, dismounted from his Italian-made Gilera to take the riders' salutes...
After the Opera. A fair number of Americans in Paris eventually turn up at the hospital. Schoolteacher Anne Louise McMahon of Lewisburg, W. Va. was crossing the Boulevard des Capucines one night last month, after attending the opera, when a motorcyclist roared down the street and hit her; she suffered a broken left leg. "Right away," she says, "I thought of my little card." Her friends fished it out of her pocketbook and handed it to the gendarme who sent her, d'urgence, to the American Hospital. Card or no, the police probably would have sent her there anyway...
...wait," he said. An airline bus set out to the rescue across the runways. It promptly got lost. A truck was sent to find the bus. It also got lost. Within an hour five separate search parties were groping helplessly about the field. At long last, a lone motorcyclist loomed out of the mist at the plane's door. "I've found you," he told the passengers cheerfully, "but now I've lost meself." Off he went into the fog again...
...Umbrellas & Cold Water. This year, a million and a quarter pilgrims went to Hardwar during the festival that ended last week. Between baths the Hindus could choose among two movie theaters, a circus and three sideshows, including "The Spider Woman," and "The Death Ride" by a motorcyclist in a deep...
This story stabs into Spitzen-on-the-Dein and its people at various times during world wars and an American occupation. The U. S. military government is administered by a venereal-diseased motorcyclist named Leevey. The book's narrator--who only narrates for a dozen-odd pages throughout--eventually kills Leevey, overthrows the occupation, and founds a new Germany...